- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: The construction of African pasts
- 1. The changing shape and perception of ‘Africa’
- 2. Mythic and mystic Africa
- 3. Looking both ways: The enigma of Raymond Dart
- 4. Egos and fossils
- 5. Stirring the gene pool: Human ancestors from Africa to the wider world
- 6. Ancient Egypt and African sources of civilisation
- 7. Old states good, new states bad
- 8. The present of the past
- Notes
- Index